Disappointed in Youkai Watch

[Alistaire]

Well, anyone wanting to do anything other than this event, will be happy to know you'll be waiting for ages in df for things...

Nope. Deep dungeon still pretty much instant.

[Jadub2k]

The Games immersion was broken during the games 1st year of release during the 1st crossover event, then FFXI, then Dragon Quest, now we have yokai watch. And wasn't there a thread a few mounts back asking for Phantasy Star Online 2 crossover? For a game that "technically" doesn't exsist in the west yet? Or is ok as long as its FF series characters, hairstyles, glamours, etc.? Hell thats like trying to say that trying to jump off something and a invisible wall/barrier stops you and doesn't break immersion at all. (and you better believe there's going to be a FFXV crossover event too, so will that be exceptible?) Alot of people won't like this, I get where your coming from. But as I said. This games immersion was broken in the 1st few months that it came out and will be a contant thing but sadly for you, Trying to ignore it is the best that can be done.

[vanitaslaughing]

Man, this entire thread is a riot.

On a more serious note, however... OP pulling the "you're not a true fan"-card was incredibly childish. I got into Final Fantasy as a whole back in 2013-ish, since the last time I tried a FF game I was much much younger and incredibly bad at losing, blaming the game for my death/s and discarding it like common trash. As a side effect of me getting over my scorn for Kingdom Hearts for exactly the same reason, I started giving these games some of my friends had been talking about for ages a go. And I ended uploving them,thus even going as far as getting a PS4 for myself after Christmas together with FFXIV. Said PS4 has been almost exclusively used for FFXIV since, I've gotten both artbooks, have the ARR Collector's Edition (because they were out of normal ones at the store after Christmas), I've gotten back into writing fanfiction because of this game.
Am I not a FFXIV fan simply because I got into the game late (in late 2014), or because I enjoy immersion-breaking things like silly events or running in circles for 3 hours to get every single piece of swimwear because we just got back from our trip to New England a few days ago, the jetlag settled, and the event was about to end?

Now, I do agree to a certain point - the lore of FFXIV is amazing and I want to see more of it. PotD especially made me want more, given how we pretty much ended everything with Ishgard for this patch's duration and we are on the waiting list for 4.0 now.
Now that the event itself has begun, I have to admit... They incorporated it pretty cleverly, actually lore-fitting, no matter how absolutely ridiculous everything looks. It'd make sense for these Yokai to be around SOMEWHERE on Hydaelyn, and since we have to basically lure them out to befriend them, well. I have to applaud how they melded together FFXIV and (what little I know of) Yokai Watch while being true to both games' settings in its own way. It's basically a crossover fanfiction done very very well, and I have to admit that made me laugh. It's very silly and lighthearted, but it feels right somehow (unlike last year's Hatching Tide... Augh, that was out of place).

Now, I don't care much about Yokai Watch, personally. Probably like a vast majority on the English-speaking part of the forums, probably like the majority of the Germany-based FFXIV-players like I. Does that mean I want the event to end immediately because I, personally, don't care and know that much?
No.
I know there's people VERY MUCH enjoying this, such as my friend. He's been up and at it for hours now, and he's about (or probably got it while I was typing this) to get his 13th minion, and probably rather close to his third weapon. He's taken a break from FATEs for a couple minutes to just scream about how much he loved the minions and feeding them at the FC Estate, which I had to admit was in both parts adorable and really really dorky.

Yes, people are gonna run around with that dumb mount, and maybe the minions for a while after the event concluded. Yes, it might break OP's immersion because they do look out of place, but you know what else looks out of place? The Dwarf Bunny minion, to name one. There's no actual bunnies seen in the game, they're only mentioned when compared to Spriggans once or twice. We don't see them, we know they exist - thus actually seeing one is hilariously out of place, or extremely rare.
Does that sound familiar to anyone who started the Event?
It's exactly the same explanation they used for the Yokai minions. Or well, maybe not exactly the same, but you get my point. By relating it to the Gold Saucer they made it even more of a silly fun part-time thing - no one's forcing anyone to gamble, let alone get wrapped up in some weird business relating to minions and then to creatures from another place.

Also, if you're so fixated on immersion for RPing, then maybe... I dunno. There's linkshells and the such. You can also not do the event and ignore the minions/mounts as well as you can, naturally after said event concluded because the grand majority of the playerbase are going to do this right now. It'll calm down eventually. You can also choose to do the event but not use it when you're trying to get properly immersed or are RPing. I guess.

As for the people screaming "PRODUCT PLACEMENT", tell me the Lightning, FFXI and the Dragon Quest events weren't product placement either. And the whole "as long as it's part of the Final Fantasy series" argument makes no sense whatsoever. FFXIII's universe, as much as I personally dislike it, it vastly differs from FFXIV's. FFXI might be similar in nature, but once you think about it more, both games start to appear different rather than similar. Dragon Quest, on the other hand, ironically enough might be the closest to FFXIV background-wise, but it is not part of the FF series at all.
Therefore, by that argument, it makes no sense at all for either of the former crossover events to have taken place at all. Yet they happened, pandering to people who have played these games and/or trying to net more customers by making the rest interested in FFXIIILR/FFXI/DQ.
Is that bad? Nah, that's just 2016 for you.

/rantover, I had to let that out before returning to my second anima, haha

[SoloNightlock]

How is this preventing you from doing other content?

I can't very well play the game while its servers are down for maintanance can i?

[Gramul]

I can't very well play the game while its servers are down for maintenance can i?

This will happen regardless. And I hardly think 4 hours in the middle of the night will bring ruin to your experience.

[Alistaire]

The Games immersion was broken during the games 1st year of release during the 1st crossover event, then FFXI, then Dragon Quest, now we have yokai watch. And wasn't there a thread a few mounts back asking for Phantasy Star Online 2 crossover? For a game that "technically" doesn't exsist in the west yet? Or is ok as long as its FF series characters, hairstyles, glamours, etc.? Hell thats like trying to say that trying to jump off something and a invisible wall/barrier stops you and doesn't break immersion at all. (and you better believe there's going to be a FFXV crossover event too, so will that be exceptible?) Alot of people won't like this, I get where your coming from. But as I said. This games immersion was broken in the 1st few months that it came out and will be a contant thing but sadly for you, Trying to ignore it is the best that can be done.

Is this thread even still about the immersion? I thought it had become "this event is terrible because of what it is and how grindy it is".

[Nalien]

I can't very well play the game while its servers are down for maintanance can i?

Just so you know, all the Yo-Kai stuff was put in during 3.35, along with some Summer/Rising event stuff, IIRC... This maintenance/update was to adjust Palace of the Dead and correct some issues... SE could have canceled the Yo-Kai event, but this maintenance would still have occurred...

[Vidu]

I can't very well play the game while its servers are down for maintanance can i?

...wow... just - wow... you cant play the game for four hours because they put new stuff in... yeah... please, SE, never do that again... this is pathetic and I hope you know that...

[Jadub2k]

Is this thread even still about the immersion? I thought it had become "this event is terrible because of what it is and how grindy it is".

Yeah strange how that comes into the topic of "Immersion" lol

[SoloNightlock]

...wow... just - wow... you cant play the game for four hours because they put new stuff in... yeah... please, SE, never do that again... this is pathetic and I hope you know that...

Fate grind for random glam items whose sole purpose for existance is advertisment is new content?